Saturday, 13 July 2013

Classic PC Games you Should Play - Grim Fandango

Tim Schafer is best known lately for the Doublefine Adventure Kickstarter project where he managed to get and spend a-ton of money for the development of his upcoming adventure game called Broken Age. But Tim Schafer's greatest success in my honest opinion was and always will be Grim Fandango, an amazing game that didn't manage to sell all that well when it was first released back in 1998.

What is Grim Fandango

Grim Fandango is a 3D Adventure Game with a Film Noir art-style inspired from the Mexican holiday "Dia de los Muertos" (Day of the Dead) and it comes from the good old LucasArts era. It is Manny Calavera's 4-year journey through the land of the dead to reach the 9th underworld where all the dead souls go to find eternal peace.

Why it is great

This game has an atmosphere unlike any other game I have ever played. The environments are great, the dialogues are amazing, the story is cool, the characters are interesting, the jokes are funny and Glottis is not too big the cars are just too small!

Where can you get it

It is a pretty difficult game to find, since during it's release it didn't sell all that much.

I have however found that there are some copies of Grim Fandango being sold on amazon for rediculous prices but can also be found used at ebay.

If you are interested in this game (and you should be) you can find it below: